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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

The politics of an energy dystopia

10 May 2022 2:00 pm

We are seeing unprecedented prices in the Australian gas and electricity wholesale markets. The first five days of May saw…

Depp v. Heard: trials and tribulations

10 May 2022 12:00 pm

If you are interested in litigation and court cases, your latest obsession is the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial……

Get wet, end up drowned

10 May 2022 11:00 am

Soggy Liberals under attack from the Climate 200 mob have no one to blame except themselves. They walked out into…

Crucial legal front opens in WA vaccine mandate challenge

10 May 2022 9:00 am

Spectator Australia readers will recall that, in a recent piece, I reported on an urgent hearing on the evening of Monday, March…

Will Albo bring the Keating interest rates back?

10 May 2022 4:00 am

In 1975, when Gough Whitlam came to power, Labor’s free tertiary education scheme meant that I could go to university.…

Dan's abysmal fictional Budget

9 May 2022 2:00 pm

As a former high-school English teacher it’s always struck me as odd that many of the most influential works of…

Hyperventilating over juristocracy

9 May 2022 12:00 pm

To read the newspapers in Australia and Britain – even the conservative newspapers – one would think the US Supreme…

Mum’s the word

9 May 2022 11:00 am

Anthony Albanese can’t tell you much about his policies, but would you like to hear about his mother? The Labor…

Labor's housing plan: the monster is in the detail

9 May 2022 9:00 am

In 2010, the then Rudd government introduced a 40 per cent tax on mining companies. The tax took the form…

Krystle Mitchell on Dan Andrews and Victoria Police

9 May 2022 4:00 am

[This article discusses multiple forms of trauma, including childhood trauma, sexual assault, and mental health.] I’m currently known as the…

Karl Marx wouldn’t fancy Xi Jinping

8 May 2022 11:00 am

The essence of communism (in case you haven’t managed to grab a copy of Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto), is that everything…

I don’t need to be ‘welcomed’ to my country

8 May 2022 4:00 am

The notion that Australians must be welcomed or invited to their own country by Indigenous leaders – as occurs at…

Decline and fall of the West

7 May 2022 11:00 am

History tells us that civilisations and empires are ephemeral. Like the Egyptian civilisation, they may last for thousands of years…

Activists masquerading as educators

7 May 2022 4:00 am

The recent news from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) that fewer and fewer students are choosing to study higher…

Now, everyone’s a biologist!

6 May 2022 2:00 pm

And just like that, bodily autonomy and women were back! With news leaking that the US Supreme Court was set…

For whom doth Ukraine’s bell toll?

6 May 2022 12:00 pm

Few people are better qualified than General Philip Breedlove (US) and General Sir Richard Shirreff (UK) to assess the military…

Where are those 'money trees' when you need them?

6 May 2022 9:00 am

If only money could grow on trees. Victoria could plant a vast forest stretching to the horizon, visible from the…

Saving Private Josh

6 May 2022 4:00 am

Josh Frydenberg has always been openly ambitious. Ambitious to be Member for Kooyong. Ambitious to be a minister. And ambitious…

China: an empire of debt

5 May 2022 2:00 pm

‘China is building an empire on debt,’ said Mark Steyn, of GB News. He is correct. Australia’s Pacific neighbour exports…

Treacherous Turnbull?

5 May 2022 12:00 pm

Our remarkable nation has had thirty Prime Ministers since Federation serving thirty-five separate terms of office. Elections at the national…

It's time to vote for change

5 May 2022 9:00 am

Politics has drifted a long way left since the days of Menzies and Fadden. Starting with Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser,…

Roe v. Wade v. the Rule of Law

5 May 2022 4:00 am

Last year, the US Supreme Court heard an argument in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation which…

The myth of unlimited resources

4 May 2022 2:00 pm

Money is simply an idea. It is a shortcut to make life, not only simpler, but more dynamic. It is…

Yeah but, what about 'back up'?

4 May 2022 12:00 pm

Clearly, some things are no longer up for discussion. In a current TV ad from the Clean Energy Council, there…

Albo plots against Australia’s self-employed

4 May 2022 9:00 am

There’s one seemingly small ‘bit’ in Labor’s election policy that should scare the hell out of Australia’s two million-or-so self-employed…